July 2010
The What You Are Afraid Of: A mischievous online... →
I just passed this one on to Kevin Kelly for his list but I figured I’d post it to Tumblr, too. It is one of my favorite magazine articles from the last few years; I’ve reread it at least four times.
Some bizarre organizational impulse is guiding me to add many of the articles on Kevin Kelly’s list to an Instapaper folder under my account. …I’d share it here but...
[Kevin Kelly]: The Best Magazine Articles Ever →
I’m a sucker for the current leaderboard (DFW, Talese, Rosenbaum) but also the idea of Kevin Kelly hosting the list. Despite a haphazard entry into journalism via technology, I’ve read more of these—and recognize the journalists behind them—than I would have guessed.
…I now have at least 10 new tabs open and the page bookmarked. I’ll need another vacation to get through...
The Acceleration of Addictiveness →
Paul Graham:
…as the world becomes more addictive, the two senses in which one can live a normal life will be driven ever further apart. One sense of “normal” is statistically normal: what everyone else does. The other is the sense we mean when we talk about the normal operating range of a piece of machinery: what works best. These two senses are already quite far apart....
“Now is the time to put my fucking children and my wife first for a change. I...”
– Rod Blagojevich, then-governor of Illinois, speaking about his constituency, Election Day 2008.
via the Blago Blog (via ascendingcoherence)
“I was an adult before I realized that Ensign was a military rank, and not just a...”
– You were doing it wrong | Ask MetaFilter
Here On The Island: A Scholarly Critique of the... →
By Lewis Napper. Via @tankriot’s Gilligan’s Island episode, of course. (Just catching up.)
The Quantified Self: What I Learned From... →
Alexandra Carmichael shares how she took a genetic risk for Tourette’s, identified (with amazing candor) her current tics and experimented with ways to alleviate their impact.
Really cool analysis, basically.
Reader Story: The Other Side of Bankruptcy →
Wow.
